Country legend Willie Nelson [ tickets ] and four other people aboard his tour bus reportedly received misdemeanor citations for possession of marijuana and mushrooms after the bus was pulled over by a Louisiana State Police officer near Breaux Bridge.

The truck was pulled over Monday morning (9/18) for a commercial vehicle inspection, and a state trooper entering the vehicle said he immediately smelled marijuana, Lafayette, LA's The Daily Advertiser reported. Police said a search of the bus turned up one and a half pounds of marijuana and two-tenths of a pound of mushrooms.

Though the quantity of drugs confiscated was enough to warrant a felony charge of distribution, all five people on the bus, including Nelson, reportedly claimed ownership of the illegal substances.

Rapper Jay-Z [ tickets ], who announced his retirement as a performer with his 2003 set, "The Black Album," has decided to get back to work. In an Entertainment Weekly cover story, he revealed that he'll issue a new album, dubbed "Kingdom Come," on Nov. 21.

The Knack [ tickets ]'s Doug Fieger and Berton Averre, who wrote the No. 1, 1979 single "My Sharona," reportedly have filed a copyright infringement suit against Run-D.M.C. [ tickets ] for using a sample from the song as the basis for their 1986 track "It's Tricky."

The lawsuit, which claims unspecified damages and legal fees, as well as an ownership stake in "It's Tricky," claims that Fieger and Averry never heard the Run-D.M.C. song before 2005.

Grammy-nominated rockers Shadows Fall are in the studio recording their major-label debut with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush). The as-yet-untitled set is expected to hit stores next spring.

The metal act signed with Atlantic Records after recording 2004's "The War Within" and its companion release, 2006's "Fallout from the War," on the indie label Century Media Records.